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### Author
Plée, Auguste (1787-1825), French traveller for the Paris Muséum d'Histoire naturelle; from 1820-1825 in the West Indies.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Plée* \[standard form in IPNI: *Plée*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]]; other material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection G|G]] and [[Collection L|L]]. – Original drawings at [[Collection P|P]], ms 65-73, 75.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 92; Herder p. 175; Kew 4: 324; Lasègue p. 315, 492, 505; NI 1534, see also index; PR 7195-7196; Rehder 1: 94, 407, 5: xxi; Sotheby 603; TL-2/984, 986, 989; Tucker 1: 560; Urban-Berl. p. 383.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Belg. hort. 17: 244, 256. 1867.
- Baillon, H., Dict. bot. 3: 612. 1891.
- Didot, Nouv. biogr. gén. 40: 463-464. 1862.
- Guillaumin, A., Les fleurs des jardins xxxix. 1928.
- Leland, A., Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 392(1): 274. 1932 (letter).
- Leroy, F., ed., et al., Bot. franç. Amér. nord 7, 14, 28, 38 \[Ewan\], 193-201, \[M. Raymond\], 235. 1957.
- Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 1: 127-128, 192. 1971.
- Pittier, H., Man. pl. usual. Venezuela 3. 1926.
- Raymond, M., *in* J.F. Leroy, ed., Bot. franç. Amer. nord 193-201. 1957 (Plée and the Amer. flora; with notes on the "affaire Plée"; details on W. Ind. and Venez. explorations).
- Rouse, P., Antiques 96: 763. 1969 (n.v.).
- Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3: 101. 1902 (itin., coll.).
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 366. 1937.
### Publications
##### n.8052. Herborisations artificielles
**Title**
*Herborisations artificielles* aux environs de Paris ou recueil de toutes les plantes qui y croissent naturellement, dessinées et gravées d'après nature, de grandeur naturelle,... par Auguste Plée neveu, et François Plée, fils,... à Paris (Chez les auteurs...) 1811. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Herbor. artif.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*. François Plée.
*Publ*.: 1811 (p. \[ii\]: 20 Jul 1811), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-12, *100 unnumbered plates* (uncol. copp. hand-coloured by authors). *Copies*: G (*40 pl.*), NY (*100 pl.*). – The New York copy has the original cover of parts 1-10 ("Herborisations"). The contents are given om the wrappers but these are incomplete. Fascicles 1-3 contained 10 plates each, and were published by Auguste and François Plée; parts 4-10 contained 5 plates each and were published by François Plée alone. The covers of the 11-17th parts are missing in the NY copy. With the three "double" parts 1-3, the 17 parts contained *100 plates* in all (ideal copy; NI mentions 104 pl., PR 99). The covers mention three issues: (1) with anatomical details in colour (NY); in full colour and in full colour on "papier grand raisin vélin". They were said to appear each month (from August 1811 onward).
*Re-issue*: PR mentions a new publication of the first two parts (20 pl. plus initial text), Paris (Lequien) 1830, not seen by us.
##### n.8053. Le jeune botaniste
**Title**
*Le jeune botaniste*, ou entretiens d'un père avec son fils sur la botanique et la physiologie végétale. Ouvrage contenant, en abrégé, les principes de la physique végétale,... à Paris (Chez Ferra aîné,... et chez Lebel et Guibel,..) 1812, 2 vols. 1812. Duod.
**Abbreviated title**: *Jeune bot.*
**Notes**
*1*: 1812, frontisp., p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-337, *pl. 1-8* (uncol. copp.).
*2*: 1812, n.v.
*Copy*: NY (vol. 1).